The Potato Chip Puzzles_ The Puzzling World of Winston Breen - Eric Berlin [82]
Winston didn’t know what to say to that, but Mr. Garvey wasn’t done talking anyway. He said, “When I went back into the amusement park, I had the specific idea of trying to scare Rod Denham and his team out of the race. I acted all worried, like I was considering quitting myself—although, of course, I meant to do no such thing. I wanted him to get scared and quit. He didn’t. And in fact, I think he saw right through me. Two other teams bought my act, and they quit the race.” He took a deep breath. “Jake was right. I did the cheater’s work for him. I couldn’t have done a better job if I’d been working with him from the beginning. When I thought about it later on, I didn’t like myself very much.
“So when I went to talk to Dmitri Simon, I decided to tell the truth for a change. I told how the girls had helped us, and the promise we had made to them in return.”
Winston said, “You looked so nervous when he came over to talk to us.”
“Sure!” said Mr. Garvey. “I thought you were going to leave out the bit about the girls, because you might have thought that’s what I did. That would have been a damn foolish comedy of errors.” He chuckled. “I should have known you would tell the truth. You’re a good kid.”
He started walking again, and Winston followed.
Winston found himself dwelling on one small detail of the teacher’s speech. He said as they walked to the parking lot, “So, uh, you give homework on Fridays?”
Mr. Garvey laughed. “You’ll find out in September.”
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
THE TWO KIDS sat in the living room. The coffee table held the remains of an explosion of puzzle magazines, snacks, and drinks. The television screen displayed a dingy castle dungeon. Two armor-clad knights advanced on each other, waving their swords.
“Okay,” Brendan Root said, fiddling with the joystick. “How do I play?”
WANT
MORE
PUZZLES?
CARE FOR SOME DESSERT?
Six more puzzles by Dmitri Simon
I’ve got six puzzling desserts for you! The first five puzzles have a word as their answer. The sixth, “Make Your Own Sundae,” will tell you how to combine all those answers. The result will be a very sweet treat—exactly what you deserve!
Apple Pie
What’s as American as apple pie? This puzzle, that’s what. Each of the clues below leads to a word or phrase that contains the letters USA, in that order. The shaded letters, reading down, will spell out a clue to a six-letter word.
Fruit Plate
Sure, cakes and cookies are yummy, but don’t pass by the fruit plate! You can find seventeen kinds of fruit in the grid below, reading up, down, left, right, or diagonally. After you’ve found them all, the leftover letters, taken row by row, will spell out a clue to a six-letter word.
APPLE
APRICOT
BANANA
CHERRY
GRAPE
KUMQUAT
LEMON
MANGO
MELON
ORANGE
PAPAYA
PEAR
PERSIMMON
PLUM
RASPBERRY
RHUBARB
TANGERINE
Jelly Roll
This jelly roll is filled with a bunch of yummy letters. Answers go in two directions—in and out. The starting and ending numbers for each answer are given to you. If you get stuck on the In clues, try the Out clues. By working back and forth, you should be able to fill the entire jelly roll. When you’re done, the circled letters, following the inward path, will spell out a word.
Candy Sampler
There’s a wide variety of candy in this box. Each piece contains a word, and each word (except for one) is the answer to one of the questions listed below. Answer each question, and cross off its answer—the last word remaining is the one you need.
1. Which word becomes a kind of sea creature when you take the last three letters and move them into the middle of the word?
2. Which word becomes a new word if you change the last letter to the next letter in the alphabet?
3. Which word becomes a new word when you put the letters FI at the start?